Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
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...all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...entertainment. In 1870, Laurent DeGive opened Atlanta's first opera house, DeGive's Opera House, on Marietta Street. Through the 1880s and 1890s, the opera house catered to a growing cosmopolitan audience...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of segregation as meaningful political, social, economic, and historical realities, but also in the distinctions between desegregation and integration (terms far too often used interchangeably). Because of his attention to...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...plays a prominent role, not only because of the city's central east-west geographic location in the continental United States and its north-south location equidistant between Toronto, Canada, and Monterrey, Mexico,...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...copyright violation. The HathiTrust countered that their digitization project is fair use because it is intended to preserve print materials in perpetuity, give access to print-disabled readers as required by the...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...two interests converge between the individual defendant and the tribe. I think it promotes what I teach: tribes are made up of individuals. What I was taught from my family...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...parade, the band must move the crowd. The participatory nature of second lines "facilitates relations between people, providing a sense of place in which the social is enmeshed with the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...served by improved roads, was the "gateway to Florida" (10, 58), and provides a useful window into larger debates about centralization, planning, funding, and labor. Dixie Highway's tendency to use...